From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 26 19:50:31 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA27907 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA27898 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA26879; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 22:50:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 22:50:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: David Greenman cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , jkh@time.cdrom.com, marcs@znep.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list archives In-Reply-To: <199612230042.QAA23169@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, David Greenman wrote: > > we switch from the one-big file format to monthly files > > named freebsd-questions-199611, for example > > each month a new file is started for each list > > This isn't any improvement, IMO. The files would still be way-too-large > for people to deal with and it doesn't make it any easier to index the > contents. One message per file is the only scheme that addresses these > problems. For indexing purposes, the only benefit to breaking things up into chunks is fore convenient addition of new material without re-indexing everything from scratch (as is curretly done). The size of the chunks depends entirely on the desired update frequency. A month is too long. Weekly or daily would be better. Individual messages would be absurd. -john